Feral Labs
TTTLab, @Corfu, Greece

TTTlabs are highly speculative hybrid events of intense co-creation, co-education and co-development set in the Ionian Islands. TTTlabs are multi-person field work experiences that allow time and focus for in-depth play with concepts and practices of: Developmental Biology & Deprogramming, New Reproductive Technology & Rewilding, Bird Watching & Rehabilitation, Human Germline Genetic Editing & Ferality, Performance Art & Nonhuman Enrichment. “BioFeral.BeachCamp”, the first TTTlab, will be on the Island of Corfu, Greece. The emphasis will be on Bioart as fundamental research (also known as curiosity based research) including bioart labs as ‘ethics in action’. Focused on hacking research methods with wetlab Bioart, this camp includes creative video and sonic arts mash-ups, novel apparatus prototyping and bio-ferality experiments in performance art.

https://inarts.eu/
ArtLabo Retreat, @ Island of Batz, Bretagne, FR

The ArtLabo Retreat is bi-annual week-long international gathering of the extended ArtLabo Network. It takes place at the Island of Batz, off the Roscoff coast (Bretagne, FR). Its focus is on sharing research-creation practices in the field of marine biology, biomaterials, sustainable food, upcycling & circular economy, open source technology, video & sound arts and media publication.

The ArtLabo Retreat will invite national and international guests to mentor workshops with a strong focus on: bioart practices related to biology of evolution and marine biology; edible algae ethno-botany, foraging & cooking; upcycling and biomaterials; hypermedia practices related to those fields (interviews, web radio, web edition, filming & video editing).

https://www.makery.info/en/2020/09/22/artlabo-retreat-summer-camp-symbiotique-a-lile-de-batz/
PIFcamp, Summer Hacking Camp, @Soča Valley, Slovenia

PIFcamp is a 7-day hacker/maker-base set in pristine Alpine nature in close proximity of Soča river, where art, technology and knowledge meet. The camp is an immersion event, where media, video and sound artists, theorists, programmers, engineers and scientists work together on themes like DIY electronics, modular synthesis, wearable electronics, e-textiles, wildfood, citizen science and environmental studies. Around 60 participants of the camp take the leading part in holding workshops, practical field trips, theoretical lectures and on-sight briefings and actively participate in the development of various DIY/DIWO projects, while collaborating together in a creative working environment. In addition, all the projects are thoroughly documented and published online.

https://pif.camp
30.07-05.08.2023 PIFcamp 2023 #PIFtopia
28.07-03.08.2024 PIFcamp #10: DIWOtion
Summer School, @São Luís, Portugal

Focused on intersection of Art, Biology and the Environment innovative summer course offers unique opportunities to visual artists and non-specialists to acquire theoretical and practical skills in biological and environmental sciences in connection to the visual arts. The Summer School explores the interdisciplinary relationship between art, life and environmental sciences through hands-on exercises, combining theory and practice in an informal environment, e.g.: seminars, debates, visits, and the creation of artworks with biological media.

The program offers an intensive, experimental and shared learning space, in which artists in residence, experts, scientists and attendees can generate transversal knowledge, project prototypes or replicable protocols.

https://cultivamoscultura.com/2023/01/16/summer-school-2023-expanse/
Summer Camp, LabYard, @Helsingør, Denmark

Summer Camp 2023 overall focuses on questions of organizational sustainability and systemic challenges in the field of visual arts through practical workshops, group discussions, and presentations by stakeholders in the Danish visual arts field.

This year, the camp is organized by Philip Pilekjær. Philip is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and since 2019, he has worked as an editor at the Zurich-based art and culture media PROVENCE Magazine. As an artist, he regularly contributes to exhibitions both domestically and internationally and serves on the board of UKK – the Organization for Artists, Curators, and Art Mediators. During our time together, we will work on a collective project that will serve as an exercise in using algorithms, physical materials, economic structures, and ecosystems as metaphors to envision a collective future. This applies not only to our everyday interactions but also to how we organize ourselves and express our ideas through exhibitions, events, and more.

https://kuto.dk/lobende_events/summercamp/
18.07-21.07.2024 Camp Vild @Helsingør
Field_Notes, @Lapland, Finland

Field_Notes is an art&science field laboratory organized by the Bioart Society at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the Univeristy of Helsinki in Sapmi/Finland. Two groups with 7 members will work for two weeks in the sub-Arctic Lapland to develop, test and evaluate specific interdisciplinary approaches on questions in relation to biology, ecology and life sciences. During two weeks the groups will approach its questions from different angles. They will organize themselves in work groups, teams, think tanks, and workshops. They will carry out their work in their related fields, as well as have common activities of lectures,presentations and feedback sessions. Expected results include abstracts, anecdotes, anecdata, artefacts, collaborations, data, documentation, experience, experiments, future workshops, field notes, friends, drawings, hard and software, ideas, knowledge, photos, presentations, prototypes, recordings, skills, sketches, sounds, projects, photos, videos and more.

The theme of Field_Notes 2023 is The North Escaping and will focus to explore the current and approaching transformations in the North.

https://bioartsociety.fi/
Electric Wonderland, International Maker and Hacker Camp, @Baške Oštarije, Croatia

Electric Wonderland is all about DIY explorers, curiosities and open labs in nature. We will delve into the imaginary realms of co-creation by ‘following the white rabbit’ in order to expand the knowledge transfer of high-tech and low-tech merged together into an interdisciplinary laboratory in nature.

The camp will thematise hybrid forms of expressions with a lot of workshops from DIY music electronic instruments, synths and devices, smart city technology, DIY photography devices, biohacking, design thinking, DIY kitchen lab, movable objects and mobiles, eTextiles, robotics, paper art craft, biomimetics, citizen energy communities, solar energy, renewable energies, climate changes and recycling objects, all in the context of citizen science.

People will have an opportunity to join the workshops and lectures as they wish, bring their own projects for further development, give a free style lecture, wander around the woods and lakes to explore the nature, hanging around the camp, maintain the camping fire in the middle of the camp, partaking guerilla workshops for local citizens of Fužine, enjoying or performing every evening at a concert/jamming in the camp, reading, exercising, hiking or cycling, helping to maintain the camp, visiting the city of Rijeka and local Adriatic coast, hanging with artists-in-residence, just to name a few. Not to mention exploring the local flora and fauna with artists, biologists and tech geeks.

https://www.electric-wonderland.eu/
Schmiede, Playground of Ideas, @Hallein, Austria

Schmiede is an annual ten-day event for networking, learning, creation and presentation. It facilitates a creative pop-up ecosystem in order to enhance cooperation and motivate fast prototyping with more than 300 participants from over 15 nations and a good gender balance. Schmiede creates a temporary critical mass where there is usually none and forms a semi-public program around it. In any undertaking, Schmiede attempts to inspire, motivate and blur the line between the producer and the consumer, creating an autonomous and inclusive learning experience. The participants come to Hallein and enjoy this temporary collaborative workspace, which is open, fluid and stable at the same time.

Schmiede the playground of ideas for peer2peer learning and prototyping is organised into labs.  Like everything at Schmiede labs are autonomous. To be more precise: Labs are focused Schmiedes within Schmiede with certain process stepping stones.  Yes you could do a lab on spot whenever. However for Schmiede to provide support we need to talk ahead of time, before May. Labs at Schmiede are gathering points and islands of interest within Schmiede, bridging projects, labs and Smiths. A Lab can focus on anything of intereset to you, the lab leaders. Smiths with an understanding or strong focus on the content in question take action to create more. By creating a lab at Schmiede you open the door to bring together peers and support each other and your interest.

more: https://schmiedehallein.com/archives/1206

http://schmiede.ca
13.09-23.09.2023 Schmiede23: Blood
Feral Residencies
Chronicler in residency, @Nomadic residency 2x

A journalistic take on what a residency could be – nomadic journalists will be covering the project’s events, as well as similar events outside of the partnership!

https://www.makery.info/en/category/feral-labs/
LabYard, @Helsingør 3

LabYard is part of Kulturværftet’s program line CLICK, which is an experimental and investigative playground that explores the potential in the intersection of art, philosophy, science, and technology.

https://kuto.dk/english/
01.10-30.11.2022 Line Finderup Jensen
11.11-04.12.2024 Samara Sallam
PIFresidency, @osmo/za, Ljubljana 2x

The main goal of 4 one-month (or longer) residencies at osmo/za research & presentation venue in Ljubljana (SI), is to provide insight into the overall process of creating artworks in the field of new media, open source technologies, and DIY, DIWO and DITO practices, developed in connection with PIFcamp or another local creative platform/hub. The residencies will enable the artists to further develop their projects and will require from them to actively engage with possible other collaborators, the local communities, creative collectives and organisations through workshops, artist-talks, informal meetings and lectures. Hosts will provide the necessary means of production and facilitate cooperation with local experts and artists, with the possibility of post-production and future presentations of the artist’s work.

https://www.projekt-atol.si/en/
Cultivamos Cultura Residencies, @Portugal 4x

With a variable duration (from 3 weeks to 4 months), residents can either work on research and/or production of specific artworks that remain in Cultivamos Cultura or its surrounding area. These artworks will become integrated in the visitor’s itinerary and contribute to the local cultural offer. The residency will take advantage of Cultivamos Culltura infrastructure at Sao Luis, Alentejo, or collaborations with our partners in Lisbon coordinated through Ectopia – Experimental Art Laboratory. The venue itself offers workshops with basic equipment for electronics, and laboratory for biology related work; space for the development of performative work; (4) several exhibition spaces with different characteristics. Residents are encouraged to explore the social and natural environment: the village of Sao Luis, thesurrounding Southwest Alentejo coast natural park, andthe Atlantic coast. In Lisbon, there is an established collaboration with Ectopia – Experimental Art Laboratory that has a tradition in matching artists with research laboratories in the Lisbon area. Resident artists will have access to an art consultant (Marta de Menezes, art director of Cultivamos Cultura) and a scientific consultant (Luis Graca, expert in biomedical research, Professor at the University of Lisbon Medical School).

https://cultivamoscultura.com/category/residencies-2022/
15.11-15.12.2022 Anna Isaak-Ross
12.12-30.12.2023 Andrea Polli
Electric Wonderland AIR, @Zagreb, Croatia 2x

Radiona’s programme of residencies is open to various approaches in exploring the medium of technology-based arts and maker culture. Residents are invited to spend some research time in the lab in Zagreb, to work in collaboration with the local tech-art community, create an actual artefact, which is consequently presented at international exhibitions curated by Radiona, and to run a masterclass workshop in the lab. The main aim of the residency programme is to provide opportunities for an individual to delve into Radiona’s ecosystem and environment, to use its knowledge base and to acquaint the local maker scene with new practices

https://radiona.org/
FeralAIR, International Residency Program at Schmiede Hallein, @Hallein, Austria 3x

The multitude of Schmiede is structured around specialised Labs – they are gathering points and islands of interest within the Schmiede community. By creating a Lab at Schmiede one provides the opportunity for peers to come together, support each other and their interests. The FeralLab at Schmiede would focus on general Feral Labs Network topics and deepen as well as broaden their scope. Examples might be a small project team but can also be a related hub to enhance existing impulses. Labs are led by Lableaders who accepted responsibilities and therefore occupy a position that expands the free role of a Smith – a Schmiede participant. They do not need to solve or work on others’ challenges or projects, but are there to facilitate and direct, honouring the first SchmiedeRule: The autonomy of a Smith must not be undermined!

FeralAIR is an artist focused format which allows artists to not only participate at Schmiede but use its infrastructure during the entire period of September. Artists can enjoy focused work/studio environment as well as the intense DIWO environment of Schmiede. Finally, Schmiede hosts three different AIR programs enabling artist exchange also throughout September. Mentoring is optionally available. The longer durations of the AIRs also offer access to different workbenches around Salzburg, at University, as well as with our partners.

https://fraeuleinflora.pageflow.io/feralair#231200
Field_Notes, International AIR programme, @Kilpisjärvi, Finland 1x

Field_Notes is an art&science field laboratory organized by the Bioart Society at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the Univeristy of Helsinki in Sapmi/Finland. Two groups with 7 members will work for two weeks in the sub-Arctic Lapland to develop, test and evaluate specific interdisciplinary approaches on questions in relation to biology, ecology and life sciences. During two weeks the groups will approach its questions from different angles. They will organize themselves in work groups, teams, think tanks, and workshops. They will carry out their work in their related fields, as well as have common activities of lectures,presentations and feedback sessions. Expected results include abstracts, anecdotes, anecdata, artefacts, collaborations, data, documentation, experience, experiments, future workshops, field notes, friends, drawings, hard and software, ideas, knowledge, photos, presentations, prototypes, recordings, skills, sketches, sounds, projects, photos, videos and more.

The theme of Field_Notes 2023 is The North Escaping and will focus to explore the current and approaching transformations in the North. 

https://bioartsociety.fi/projects/ars-bioarctica/pages/residency
TTT Conference, Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art and Science (TTT2023), @Malta Society of Arts, Valletta 1x

The international conference Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science (TTT) is an interdisciplinary and nomadic event, where both practitioners as well as theorists present and discuss the status of art-science and/or art & technology. TTT has been hosted in Greece (2016-2017), Mexico (2018), Austria-Online (2020) and will be soon hosted in Malta (2023). The conference focuses (a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and about the aesthetics of liminality, as expressed in art that uses or is inspired by technology and science, and (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art. Topics explored in the TTT Conferences include: Biopunk, hybridity and aesthetics of mutation; Cyborg, augmentation, and bοdy modification; Chemistry of the mind, natural healers, and mind enhancement; Biotechnology, DIY&DIWO, and biohacking; Ethology, human and nonhuman; Evolution, genetics, and plasticity; Post-gender, transgressive identities, and social models; Human sexual response, laws of attraction, and queer eroticism; Parasitology, symbiosis, and microbiome; Biopolitics, displacement, and resistance; Pandemic, bioterror, and scientific trust; Witchcraft, gender narrative, and history of science; Rewilding, degradation and restoration.

https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/
TTTfellows, @Ionian islands 2x

TTTfellows is an hybrid artist residency and academic research fellowship project. It aims to bring together one artist and one scientist during 30 days for interdisciplinary friction and immersion in the Ionian islands. TTTfellows are selected via open call for participation based on their letter of intention and CV. The project is particularly focused on the topic of Art, Ecology & Communities. Participants should be willing to contribute to the development of a local DIY Bio Hub, to teach one module (graduate level students at the IURC) and to create a piece in one of the following categories:  speculative science publication or speculative design project exhibit.

https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt-fellows/2023/en/fellows/
Feral Calls
Feral News
Pinned News ▽ The Laboratory Planet issue no.6 is out! Published 12.06.2024

Soil Assembly special • Planetary Peasants

Laboratories for habitable futures

The publication of issue no. 6 of The Laboratory Planet is out.
At a time when living conditions are deteriorating ever further, ecologically as well as socially and humanly, this is the direction we propose to take. In this issue, we imagine a peasant and neo-peasant future, invented by planetary peasants, organized in diverse territories, cultivating biotopes that are more heterogeneous, more democratic, and therefore more habitable than those of imperial cities. This issue opens up to a central section on the recent Soil Assembly initiative, and develops some of the experiences, reflections and surveys collected within this emerging network.

It will be distributed from June 17 at the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos, at Awareness in Art in Zurich as part of the More-Than-Planet exhibition, for the launch of the Planetary Peasants program at the Werkleitz festival in Halle, on the occasion of 500 years of peasant revolts in Germany, and at other distribution points across Europe among the More-Than-Planet network.

You can also download it via the link below:
https://www.more-than-planet.eu/logs/the-laboratory-planet-issue-n-6

Pinned News ▽ Mobility Conversation 2024 selections made Published 30.05.2024
Pinned News ▽ The 2024 map of summer camps in Europe (and beyond) Published 28.05.2024

Holidays are coming soon! Like every year, Makery brings you its selection of summer camps and universities, for a DiY season in the great outdoors. A tour of Europe, from Slovenia to Portugal, via Armenia, the UK and of course France… there’s something for everyone!   Are you organizing a camp that is not on… View Article

Sharing open-source knowledge: from Do-It-Yourself electronics to artist-run associations Published 01.09.2024

Laureate of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant, belarusian artist Maryia Komarova attended a residency in several locations in Central France together with artist Pierre Pierre Pierre (aka PPP) dedicated to the development of portable multichannel setup assembled with electret microphones, diy electronics and found objects. Starting in the village of Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, the artists then… View Article

Fungal cosmology investigations in Patagonia: “art-science research is an invention of modernity” Published 27.08.2024

Fungi Cosmology is a project that emphasize new forms of dialogues, translations and collaborations between art and science. The program was created by CAB Patagonia, LabVerde, and Swiss partners Artists-in-Labs and Foodculture days with the support of Pro Helvetia and a greater consortia of funding bodies from Brazil, Chile and Switzerland. Over three years the… View Article

Electric Wonderland: The chilly willy of maker camps, run by wizards Published 14.08.2024

From july 21 to 28, the 6th edition of Electric Wonderland took place in Baške Oštarije, Croatia. We follow the rabbit into Hobbiton, a camp full of makers, tinkerers and artists gathered to create and share their knowledge. Makery was there sketching their secrets. Text and drawings by Roger Pibernat. When landing in Wonderland, I… View Article

Reading Matters: Feral Labs reading & book launch, @SOLU, Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), 00580 Helsinki Published 12.08.2024

28 Aug 2024 18:00 — 20:00

This reading group is teamed with the launch of the Feral Labs Node Book #2: Feralities published by Bioart Society and Projekt Atol Institute in the context of the project Rewilding Cultures. In this special edition of Reading Matters we will raise a glass to the Node Book and read two contributions: Liberatory laboratories: A feral future for art-science collaborations by Chessa Adsit-Morris and Field notes from Field_Notes from Field_Notes participants between 2011-2023.

Hackers & Designers:  a summer camp challenging power through collective making and being Published 09.08.2024

For ten days in July, Hackers & Designers held the 2024 edition of their summer camp with a program full of workshops, interventions, communal activities, radio sessions, and collective experiments centered on the topic of “Unruly Currents & Everyday Piracy”. Nestled between sprawling farm fields and winding narrow country roads, Het Wilde Weg in The… View Article

Kerminy, a Space for Agriculture in Arts: Weathered Esthetics Published 06.08.2024

This spring, Makery co-produced issue 6 of the occasional newspaper The Laboratory Planet. This issue imagines a peasant and neo-peasant future, invented by global peasants, organised in diverse territories, cultivating biotopes that are more heterogeneous, more democratic and therefore more habitable. The central section is devoted to the recent Soil Assembly initiative, and develops some… View Article

Cultivamos Cultura: down the bio-art rabbit hole Published 23.07.2024

From July 1 to 19, Cultivamos Cultura held its bio-art Summer School in Sao Luis, Portugal. Makery was there. Cultivamos Cultura’s Summer School happens in a farmhouse in the middle of São Luis, a small town in the Portuguese Alentejo. The winding roads that lead there stretch the time, making everything slower, even my phone…. View Article

Land and Liberation: Congolese Plantation Workers’ Art Circle (CATPC) Published 04.07.2024

There is a fight going on in the Kwilu basin. It’s CATPC’s struggle to reactivate the commons and liberate itself from the systemic violence that leads the living astray. It’s happening near the village of Kingangu, a former “Lever Brothers” plantation workers’ camp, a vestige of the colonial plantationocene in the town of Lusanga –… View Article

Andrew Gryf Paterson: leaving comfort zones and academically clean spaces (1/2) Published 10.05.2024

Andrew Gryf Paterson is a Scottish ‘artist-organiser’, cultural producer, educator and independent researcher based in Helsinki, Finland. Andrew specialised in developing and leading inter- and trans- disciplinary projects exploring connections between art, digital culture and science, cultural activism, ecological and sustainability movements, cultural heritage and collaborative networks. Laureate of the Rewilding Cultures mobility grant, he… View Article

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05.09.2022
Cyberwitch: technological emancipation, relationships with the living and spirituality

For Lucile Olympe Haute, a feminist reappropriation of the earth and nature goes hand-in-hand with a feminist reappropriation of the technologies that surround us. Interview with an artist, activist, teacher, researcher, cyberwitch, coder and specialist of web-to-print. Makery: What in your background has influenced your current artistic and personal activities? Lucile Olympe Haute: I grew… View Article

Chronicler in residency
Exhibition
23.09-18.10.2024
15.09-25.09.2024
TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp (BFBC)@Island of Crete, Greece
IONIAN UNIVERSITY
TTTLab
FeralLab
11.09-21.09.2024
Schmiede24: Sloth@Pernerinsel, Hallein, Salzburg, Austria

September 11. – 21. 2024
Regular Application: Now till May 31st
Late Application: June 15th till July 5th
Application reply emails are sent: June 15th – late: July 15th (Please check your spam folders)
Application Processing Fee: till July 31st 65€ then 85€ (if accepted)
Age limit: 18

https://schmiedehallein.com/apply

SCHMIEDE HALLEIN
Schmiede
FeralLab
01.09.2024
Sharing open-source knowledge: from Do-It-Yourself electronics to artist-run associations

Laureate of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant, belarusian artist Maryia Komarova attended a residency in several locations in Central France together with artist Pierre Pierre Pierre (aka PPP) dedicated to the development of portable multichannel setup assembled with electret microphones, diy electronics and found objects. Starting in the village of Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, the artists then… View Article

Other
27.08.2024
Fungal cosmology investigations in Patagonia: “art-science research is an invention of modernity”

Fungi Cosmology is a project that emphasize new forms of dialogues, translations and collaborations between art and science. The program was created by CAB Patagonia, LabVerde, and Swiss partners Artists-in-Labs and Foodculture days with the support of Pro Helvetia and a greater consortia of funding bodies from Brazil, Chile and Switzerland. Over three years the… View Article

Other
14.08.2024
Electric Wonderland: The chilly willy of maker camps, run by wizards

From july 21 to 28, the 6th edition of Electric Wonderland took place in Baške Oštarije, Croatia. We follow the rabbit into Hobbiton, a camp full of makers, tinkerers and artists gathered to create and share their knowledge. Makery was there sketching their secrets. Text and drawings by Roger Pibernat. When landing in Wonderland, I… View Article

FeralLab
12.08.2024
Reading Matters: Feral Labs reading & book launch@SOLU, Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), 00580 Helsinki

28 Aug 2024 18:00 — 20:00

This reading group is teamed with the launch of the Feral Labs Node Book #2: Feralities published by Bioart Society and Projekt Atol Institute in the context of the project Rewilding Cultures. In this special edition of Reading Matters we will raise a glass to the Node Book and read two contributions: Liberatory laboratories: A feral future for art-science collaborations by Chessa Adsit-Morris and Field notes from Field_Notes from Field_Notes participants between 2011-2023.

Talk
09.08.2024
Hackers & Designers:  a summer camp challenging power through collective making and being

For ten days in July, Hackers & Designers held the 2024 edition of their summer camp with a program full of workshops, interventions, communal activities, radio sessions, and collective experiments centered on the topic of “Unruly Currents & Everyday Piracy”. Nestled between sprawling farm fields and winding narrow country roads, Het Wilde Weg in The… View Article

FeralLab
28.07-03.08.2024
PIFcamp #10: DIWOtion

➤A week of hacking in the nature! 40 participants & more than 20 projects from the fields of new-media art, DIY electronics, modular synths, bio-art, citizen science, live coding, open-source technology & free software, food & nature hacking.

Projekt Atol Institute
PIFcamp
FeralLab
23.07.2024
Cultivamos Cultura: down the bio-art rabbit hole

From July 1 to 19, Cultivamos Cultura held its bio-art Summer School in Sao Luis, Portugal. Makery was there. Cultivamos Cultura’s Summer School happens in a farmhouse in the middle of São Luis, a small town in the Portuguese Alentejo. The winding roads that lead there stretch the time, making everything slower, even my phone…. View Article

Cultivamos Cultura
Summer School
FeralLab
About

The Rewilding Cultures (RC) project is centred around exploring innovative approaches to production, inclusivity, and environmental considerations at the intersection of the arts, science, and technology. With a strong focus on reflecting the evolving landscape of artistic research and production, the project aims to foster and reshape new perspectives on various aspects of artistic and creative processes, including research, production, presentation, and dissemination. Simultaneously, it underscores the significance of responsible participation, particularly regarding environmental sustainability and vital inclusion matters that can no longer be ignored. It is imperative that we embrace a rewilding approach that is relevant for both the present and future.

Background

FERAL LABS
The project builds on the legacy of the Feral Labs Network (FLN), a Small-scale Creative Europe project (with most activities in summers of 2019 and 2020), which connected organizers of Temporary Creative Hubs that vary in scope, format and topics, but hold a common methodological framework.

These Feral Labs, as we have dubbed them, form the first content pillar of our project. They are events of transdisciplinary nature which discern no clash in focusing on production of cultural artefacts and philosophy, hacking and tinkering with technology, sensing environmental data, creating educational content and addressing resilience by investigating environmental and technological challenges, all within the same event framework. By bringing together the worlds of art, humanities and social studies, education, digital activism, natural sciences and technology, participants inevitably learn about each other’s methods and processes, and benefit from each other’s know-how (tacit knowledge), know-why (the scientific explanation) and know-who (communication with & to). They can tap into the knowledge they usually could not access and discover new ways of approaching and defining social, political, natural and technological questions.

Feral Labs rely on and subscribe to the ethos of open and free software and hardware as harboured by the Free and Open Source movements. Furthermore, the participants of Feral Labs are oftentimes themselves avid champions of these ideals. However, our events are designed not just to propagate the use, the extraction of these principles, but also to encourage participants to publish their code, designs and documentation.

Environmental sustainability, Inclusivity & accessibility

All three Feral pillars (Labs, Residencies and Knowledge) are not static entities, but rather as something that also needs constant development and innovation. Two cross-cutting topics of the project are 1) environmental sustainability and 2) inclusivity and accessibility and we see them as cornerstones of our future resilience and places of main innovation for our events and projects. Through them, we will invest both into research efforts and into introduction of experimental, pilot and other exploratory measures, which have a viable potential of becoming a permanent practice across Europe and will help us make our work and formats more future-proof and offer a better deal both to the environment, participants and a democratic society.

Partners

IONIAN UNIVERSITY (IURC)

The Ionian University, founded in 1984, has seven departments spread in the urban complex of Corfu and, since 2018, five departments in the islands Lefkada, Kefalonia and Zakynthos. The Ionian University, despite its quantitative dimension but also thanks to its qualitative elasticity in adaptability and fast flow of experimental ideas, has traditionally been in Greece the initiator of less represented fields of knowledge. The Ionian University joined the Feral Labs Network in 2021 and is the coordinator partner of Feral Knowledge within Rewilding Cultures.

The members of the Interactive Arts Lab of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University are the force behind the coordination of the activities proposed in this program TTT Conference, TTT Labs and TTT Fellows and the edition of two books TTT2023 Proceedings and Feral NodeBook #3.

https://inarts.eu/

Bioart Society

Bioart Society is a Helsinki-based association developing, producing and facilitating activities around art and natural sciences with an emphasis on biology, ecology and life sciences. It is a leading organization in art & science and experimental arts. Since 2008 it developed into one of the principal organisations in Europe setting the tone on an international level for activities related to art engaging with biology, ecology and life sciences. The Bioart Society has about 130 members, artists and scientists, from Finland and international. Since 2008 it worked actively with several hundreds of Finnish and international artists and practitioners as well as with many organizations and institutions in a diverse program of exhibitions, seminars, workshops and laboratories. It runs SOLU Space, an artistic laboratory and platform for art, science and society, and together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki – Ars Bioarctica, an art & science program with focus on the sub-arctic environment.

https://bioartsociety.fi

The Culture Yard (Kulturværftet)

is located by the harbor in Elsinore and, together with Denmark’s Maritime Museum and Kronborg Castle, forms the Kulturhavn Kronborg area. The Culture Yard is North Zealand’s largest cultural center and, organized together with the city’s older culture house Toldkammeret, provides stages and space for a large number of local, national and international cultural events all year round. The two houses together delivers a broad and diverse cultural program with both tradition and unexpected artistic experiences. Visitors can find concerts, lectures, debates, films, theatre, social dining, family events and civic activities.

In the same spirit, we continue parts of the work that Catch, Center for Art, Technology and Design in Elsinore, has begun and built up over the years. Within The Culture Yard cultural programming, Catch has functioned as a municipal center for creative education and innovation, operating at the intersection of art, technology and design. Catch has had a practice-based and open door approach to learning, offering year-round workshops, institutional and independent collaboration resulting in public exhibitions, in close integration with CLICK.

https://www.kuto.dk

Cultivamos Cultura

Cultivamos Cultura is a platform for experimentation and development of shared knowledge in the theory and practice of science, technology and contemporary art. In other words, Cultivamos Cultura provides conditions to foster your creativity, organizes activities in the areas of production, dissemination, research, education and exhibition. It is also part of our mission to contribute a strong sense of cultural identity by fostering the generation of bonds with the local community and environment. We are located in an old farm house at the village of São Luís, within the Southwest Alentejo Natural Park, on the Atlantic coast of Portugal, approximately 200 Km south of Lisbon. Cultivamos Cultura hosts resident creators for periods up to 4 months. During the residency, creators are encouraged to engage in activities with local communities, including schools. It is expected that a record of the activities pursued during the residency will remain in our archives.Cultivamos Cultura curates and produces art exhibitions related to new media and experimental art practices. The objective of these exhibitions is to show the diversity of strategies within contemporary art creation, as well as the outcome of art residencies.

https://cultivamoscultura.com

ART2M / Makery Art2M, Digital Art International

Art2M (Art To Machine) is an innovative company and a think & do tank exploring and supporting creative communities in the relations between art, design, education, technologies and science. ART2M produces art works, publications and events (workshops, residencies, conferences, exhibitions, festivals) and directs its activities according to different research&action cooperation projects, the ART2M labs: media lab (Makery, MCD), make lab (with RFFlabs, Fab City Grand Paris, MakersXchange), care lab (Open Source Body, ART4MED, with Echopen foundation), planet lab (with More-Than-Planet, Aerocene France), feral lab (with Rewilding Cultures), money lab (From Commons to NFTs), bio lab (with Roscosmoe.org). Art2M is directed by Anne-Cécile Worms.

Makery is the medialab of ART2M and an online & bilingual information media (English-French, newsletter, website, social networks). It aims to cover the dynamism and give out information on the creative communities and the scene of labs, fablabs (fabrication laboratories), makerspaces (for community tinkering), hackerspaces (spaces self-managed by people wanting to divert technologies), medialabs (dedicated to new media experimentation), living labs (also known as third places, they encompass users-industries co-design in processes of innovation and experimentation), biohacklabs (the scientific, DIYbio and bioinformatics version of hacklabs), foodlabs (for community cathering and exploring future of food), artlabs (dedicated to artistic production).

https://www.makery.info/en

Projekt Atol Institute

based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, has amassed extensive and long-standing experience in fieldwork-based artistic research all around the world in its 25 year history. It manages one of the first and signature art+science field-based nomadic laboratories, the Makrolab. These experiences helped shape ZPA’s ongoing engagements in the Arctic Perspective Initiative, within which the institute aims to empower the North and Arctic people through open source technologies, as well as applied education and training since 2007. By creating access to these technologies while promoting an open, shared network of communications and data, without a costly overhead, they can advance the sustainable and continued development of culture, traditional knowledge, science, technology, and education opportunities for peoples of the North and of the Global South at the same time. ZPA is also an initiator of similar activities in Slovenia, namely the Unmanned-Resilience project held on the Gora Plateau and the yearly PIFcamp, held in the Triglav National Park.

https://www.projekt-atol.si/en/

Radiona Makerspace – Association for Development of do-it-yourself Culture

is a non-profit organisation and citizen lab consisting of makerspace/hackerspace, media art lab, Repair Café and residence program founded in 2011. The organisation is dealing with DIY (do-it-yourself), DIWO (do-it-with-others) and DITO (do-it-together) cultures, STEAM concepts, interdisciplinary and intergenerational non-formal education and hybrid activities. The lab is developing innovative projects with an emphasis on community building, participation, cohesion and social inclusion, knowledge transfer and co-creation. It is also active in the areas of GLAM, CCI in the international and local context, policy making on municipal and international level. It focuses its activities on education, innovation, research processes, art production, curatorial practices, residencies, international and domestic inter-sector collaborations, self-sustainable systems, repair community activities, citizen science and social awareness related activities.

http://radiona.org/

SCHMIEDE HALLEIN Verein zur Förderung der digitalen Kultur

Schmiede is a cooperative prototyping festival between the arts, maker and digital media, a playground where our ideas come to play. The objective is to learn from the process, each other, build trust and find collaborators for the current or future projects. Schmiede does not teach. Schmiede provides inspiration and possibilities. Schmiede empowers this process by bringing together the essentials: space, people, infrastructure, food and freedom to explore. Schmiede is open to everyone interested.

Since 2003, Schmiede is the world Smiths (participants of Schmiede) create in late September, on an island in the Alps. Once a year, around 200 people from about 15 nations, peers, artists, experts, and students in their professions and spheres of interest come together in an old salt refinery in the city of Hallein. For ten days they experiment, network and present, to an audience but first of all to peers for feedback.

Schmiede in 5:20 by Judith Holzer: vimeo.com/64489715

http://schmiede.ca/